# Any color you like: how NIST put the whole rainbow on a chip and why that matters for quantum computing

- slug: any-color-you-like-how-nist-put-the-whole-rainbow-on-a-chip-and-why-that-matters-for-quantum-com
- date: 2026-04-15
- category: Quantum Computing

NIST just showed how to shrink the room-sized laser infrastructure in trapped-ion quantum computers to chip scale — and two independent groups published the same breakthrough in the same week. The story of what that means for the trapped-ion roadmap.

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